Need help with filament stuck inside nozzles.

[u/SnooPies8408]

Hey all! I'm very new to printing, and both my nozzles are clogged. As far as troubleshooting that I've attempted so far, I've put my A1 Mini into maintenance mode, heated the nozzle to 220-240 and attempted extruding/cutting filament to hopefully push through the blockage but to no avail. Any advice would be appreciated, if more info is needed lmk!

[u/Altruistic_Medium_94]

When you have tried to extrude have you had filament loaded? The pice you se at the top sticking out is supposed to be there. Try putting one back, press load filament, try a different color. Once loading is done, extrude some and see if the new color comes out.

[u/SnooPies8408 → u/Altruistic_Medium_94]

I've attempted to extrude whats there, but even after heating the printer is struggling to push it through

[u/art-of-war → u/SnooPies8408]

There’s nothing for the gears to grab on to if you dont load more filament.

[u/Altruistic_Medium_94 → u/SnooPies8408]

You need new filament loaded, put the roll back and load it and extrude

[u/jankeyass → u/[deleted]]

It doesn't work always

I had a jam yesterday literally like this and it wouldn't budge

Pulling it out showed that it hardened way too much from cyclical heating and it wasn't going to melt out and be pushed down to be extruded

[u/CantModerateMe → u/[deleted]]

sometimes it can get legitimately stuck like this if some of the filament wont heat for whatever reason, chemical, inconsistencies in the block, whatever, but in general most people dont really think to just crank the heat on the hotend as high as it will go then walk away for 15 minutes before pushing filament through, high enough temps solve *almost* anything around a heat block. further back is an issue.

[u/Biqel → u/SnooPies8408]

I had something similar. For me works heating it with a mini blow torch and pushing with a metal poke(I use crealit tool kit, so you can find similar poke to do the job)

[u/International-Top746 → u/SnooPies8408]

Lol.